On 20/05/2010 22:10, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
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Someplace in Cupertino there is Politbureau sayinging no, life is as it was in 1985.... Alas, it is not.
No, it isn't 1985; but in North Korea it is somewhere round about 1950; in China it is a real case of mixed calendars, and in Venezuela they are trying "Back to the future". The fact that this happens in socking great companies as well does not surprise me in the slightest. They shot Stalin and Beria; only to replace him with Khruschev; who, while looking plausible was the man who supervised the slave labourers (political dissidents) building the Moscow Metro, and used to whip his pistol out and shoot people who flagged. Hitler saved somebody the bother; the West had a jolly show trial and shot a lot of totalitarian types; but let Spain go on its foul way under Franco until he died. So; as Apple seems very much a top-down sort of organisation, replacing Steve Jobs would only mean finding another of the same. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
